Syrian conflict has backed Obama into corner

10:06 PM,
May 10, 2013

Written by

Charles
KRAUT-

You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight.

Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New York Times that Obama's initial statement had been unprepared, unscripted and therefore unserious.

The next day Jay Carney said precisely the opposite: "Red line" was intended and deliberate. ...